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...I will test the link and if it doesn't work will attach a screen-print.

Steve

note: I pasted all the words into the "wordle" site that generates the image but can't guarantee they all made it into the final product.....I think they did but apologies if the generator dropped "your" word.

Pozhope, I hope this works....I created a "Wordle" that visualizes all the words used in this post:

Steve, that was very neat. Good work

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Today the word is "Explosive D" but that's because I've had this every fucking morning for the past 10 days, and just today figured out it was because I had the brilliant idea of using Xylitol in place of sugar so that I could peel off 5-8 lbs to appease my sense of vanity. Unfortunately when I bought this I didn't realize that diarrhea is a common side effect, and I guess combined with Norvir it was triple the effect.

Philly, I figured that at some point someone would have to use "diarrhoea" as the word of the day

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." - Butch Hancock, Musician, The Flatlanders

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Yay! Hope it was great (and I loved the film adaptation of 'The Devil Wears Prada').

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

My vote is for FOREVER, today. Tomorrow it most likely will be something else.

I would also like to say I keep ALL of my friends, lovers, acquaintances and strangers known to have died of AIDS or any other disease or accident alive in my mind, memories, heart, soul or whatever you would like to perceive "it" as.

1997 is when I found out, being deathly ill. I had to go to the hospital due to extreme headache and fever. I fell coma like, two months later weighing 95 pounds and in extreme pain and awoke to knowledge of Pancreatis, Cryptococcal Meningitis, Thrush,Severe Diarea, Wasting, PCP pneumonia. No eating, only through tpn. Very sick, I was lucky I had good insurance with the company I worked for. I was in the hospital for three months that time. (2010 Now doing OK cd4=210 VL= < 75)I have become resistant to many nukes and non nukes, Now on Reyataz, , Combivir. Working well for me not too many side effects. I have the wasting syndrome, Fatigue . Hard to deal with but believe it or not I have been through worse. Three Pulmonary Embolism's in my life. 2012 520 t's <20 V load

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

SOBER (for each morning that i wake up in disbelief and regret)AWAKENING (for making me realise that I, together with other hiv+ and hiv- people alike should be responsible in taking care of our selves)

HUMAN (that are only ordinary people who commit mistakes of acquiring this disease)

HELP (to remind us to extend our hands to those who've been diagnosed recently and totally lost in space.)

FAITH (for believing that in my lifetime and those of the younger generations, the cure to completely eradicate the virus will be discovered and be made available to all infected without personal gains and injustice)

I was reading the words and the more I read the more I agreed ... then I saw Mindfuck and thought .. PERFECT ... summarizes all the rest of it for me ... HIV tosses everything into turmoil and fucks with your mind ... so my word is MINDFUCK

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge